Generic lambdas

[Miles Sabin]

I just tried this again with the latest snapshot, but still no joy.
What's the current plan for generic lambdas? Are they still in?

Cheers,


Miles

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Miles Sabin <miles at milessabin.com> wrote:
> I've just been attempting to play with generic lambdas using the
> binary JDK 8 snapshot posted a few days ago,
>
> miles at lewis:lambda$ /usr/java/lambda-jdk/bin/java -version
> openjdk version "1.8.0-ea"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-ea-b1314)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.0-b04, mixed mode)
>
> I took this example from the EDR,
>
> public class Lambda {
>  public static interface Picker {
>    <T> T pick(T first, T second);
>  }
>
>  public static void main(String[] args) {
>    Picker rand = <T> (T first, T second) -> new
> Random().nextBoolean() ? first : second ;
>    int i = rand.pick(1, 2);
>    String s = rand.pick("a", "b");
>  }
> }
>
> But this fails compilation as follows,
>
> miles at lewis:lambda$ /usr/java/lambda-jdk/bin/javac Lambda.java
> Lambda.java:7: error: illegal start of expression
>    Picker rand = <T> (T first, T second) -> new
> Random().nextBoolean() ? first : second ;
>
>                  ^
> 1 error
>
> Is this expected at present?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Miles
>
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